This invasive, insidious, invidious INDOCTRINATION of our children has to stop, Ms Sturgeon
POLITICAL influence in our schools should be strongly guarded against – but it seems that the SNP believes the opposite. Under SNP rule, knowledge and facts have been stripped out of the school curriculum, with the void shamelessly filled with Nationalist ideology.
More and more incidents have shown the SNP’s creeping influence over our children’s education.
It’s done in such an insidious, underhanded way that the SNP often tries to deny its involvement.
Pictures of Nicola Sturgeon, and her party’s logo, are used to teach our children – but the SNP claims that it’s nothing to do with it.
Lessons provided to teachers depict the Loch Ness Monster as a symbol of British domination over Scotland, but the SNP Government claims it doesn’t have any role in the teaching of that nonsense.
Our schools are politicised, but the SNP plays dumb. Except, on those rare occasions, when it straight up admits to what it is doing.
That’s what happened when the controversial sex surveys were sent to schools across the country.
When I first saw these ‘wellbeing’ surveys, I thought it must be a hoax. It seemed impossible that any Scottish Government – even this SNP Government – could believe it was OK to ask young children such intrusive questions. But they did.
They insisted on asking young pupils questions that would make grown adults blush. They tried to claim that the results were anonymous, but it turned out that wasn’t the case.
Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner, Bruce Adamson, even called for the study to be halted amid fears over privacy and consent.
Even if there were no privacy worries, and the questions were not inappropriate, the survey was flawed from the get-go.
Can you imagine any young teenager answering questions about their sexual history comfortably or honestly while their peers watched from a desk nearby?
No, me neither.
The questions were so out of order that the Scottish Conservatives decided to put them to Nicola Sturgeon herself in the Scottish parliament.
At First Minister’s Questions we asked her directly. Surely, if young pupils were expected to answer these questions, the SNP leader would be happy to do so? Of course she wasn’t.
And, in media requests, no SNP Minister was willing to provide answers to the questions publicly.
They brushed off questions about oral and anal sex – but they insist that it’s appropriate to ask children below the age of 16. Unbelievable.
Let’s be clear – our schools have an important role in educating children about sexual health.
But that education must be age appropriate. It must have the consent of parents, be truly anonymous, and unintrusive.
The SNP got this badly wrong. It dismissed parents’ concerns – but the Scottish Conservatives heard them loud and clear.
That’s why, in our 2022 local government manifesto, we have made a clear commitment.
We are promising that Scottish Conservative councillors will vote to boycott future SNP Government school sex surveys that ask children intrusive personal questions.
If some surveys are required, they are best left to experts. Experts who know what is appropriate, seek parental consent, and gather and use the data safely and stringently. But the SNP are not experts. When it comes to our schools, they are amateurs.
Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that education would be her ‘number one priority’. She promised to close the attainment gap, but it is wider than ever. And our schools have tumbled down international league tables. They are moving away from everything that made our schools great.
Vague notions of ‘wellbeing’ are valued above actually doing well. They even want to do away with the strong exam system that has served generations of Scots well – at least until the SNP came to power.
Scotland’s traditional, knowledgebased curriculum and exam system is our great strength, not our weakness. The issue is the misguided government running Scotland’s schools and the dangerous agenda it is pushing.
If you agree, in this coming local election use your vote to put an end to the SNP’s grip on our schools.
They insisted on questions that would make grown adults blush’